{"id":238383,"date":"2026-06-05T02:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-cannibal-star-finally-solves-one-of-astronomys-biggest-mysteries"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:16:04","slug":"a-cannibal-star-finally-solves-one-of-astronomys-biggest-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-cannibal-star-finally-solves-one-of-astronomys-biggest-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"A Cannibal Star Finally Solves One of Astronomy\u2019s Biggest Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cannibal-star-finally-solves-one-of-astronomys-biggest-mysteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A star caught feeding on its companion has finally revealed the source of some of the galaxy\u2019s most mysterious repeating signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A star caught feeding on its companion has finally revealed the source of some of the galaxy\u2019s most mysterious repeating signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}